NATN 827

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P121524

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P121524.

Transliteration

1(disz) za3-mi-ri2-tum# zabar ku3-babbar gar-[ra]
1/2(disz) ba-an-num2
1(disz) s,u-mi-id-dingir
1(disz) ib-ni-dingir
1(disz) mar-tu ki lu2-kal-la
giri3 x-x-sa6 maszkim
[e2]-sag-da-na
nibru-ka
iti sze-sag11-ku5 min-kam
mu us2-sa a-ra2 3(disz)-kam si-mu-ru-um ba-hul

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — NATN 827. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P121524) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P121524..

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